•A map enabling members of a society (to interpret each other’s behaviours and motives o to communicate and interact)

What is Ethnicity?

An ethnic Group

People who identify with each other based on common traits

Ethnic traits

Ethno-linguistic groups

Speak their original ethnic language and maintain their cultural identit

Cultural Values in Psychology

“The discipline of psychology is a product of the European and North American cultural environment and most psychological theories and practices have been developed in Western countries. Consequently, the way psychologists understand human behavior is bound and limited by these cultural contexts” (Western, 2006).

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People content

Indigenous nations are separate national and language groups.

•Torres Strait Island Peoples

•Murray Island Peoples

•Mer Island Peoples

Murri QLD, NW NSW

Nyoongah WA

Koori NSW

Goori N Coast NSW

Koorie VIC

Yolngu Arnhem Land

Anangu Central Australia

Palawa Tasmania

Nunga SA (not always appropriate term)

Ngarrindjeri SA – River Murray, Lakes, Coorong people

Cultural and Linguistic Diversity (CALD)

Diversity in Australia

•Mass immigration followed World War II

•2013 – 2014 approx. 212,700 people migrated to Australia

•By 2050 almost 1/3 of Australian population will have been born overseas (ABS prediction)

•2000 to 2010: 58% of immigrants were from oAsia, North Africa and the Middle East